Friday, July 18, 2008

*After posting this and re-reading it, I figuredI would put a little disclaimer.This post might be considered offensiveto any of you who are religious, or whodon't have a sense of humor.I am an atheist and I have no shame.End disclaimer*

To start it off, I am seriously excited about this.So I am going to post it and get it out of the way.

Okay, there.

Just a small update. I am sure nothing anyone isitching to here about. This is all an attemptto help me remember everything, as my memoryis getting worse and worse (Jess- I do not rememberthe conversation you mentioned in my previouspost. But I'm glad I was there for you).

So, I went to Lagoon last Sunday. I have notbeen to Lagoon in 10 years. But my friend worksthere, and it was also Employee Appreciationday. So we got admission for 10 bucks. It wasalso Catholic Day, but more on that later.

On the way there, we saw some crazy homelessdude just losing it. He was yelling atthe sidewalk and jerking around. I triedto get some video footage of it, but he stoppedbefore I could. So I will just postthis instead.

Things have changed quite a bit. There were loads of new rides.The Flying Carpet is gone, which I must admit I was a little sadabout. They had the Samurai there intead, and it was not running.We went on a few classics, and I made it on three of the newerrides. I guess The Rocket isn't very new, but it was to me.The Rocket and Wicked were spectacular rides. I love the feelingof falling, and both gave you that sensation ten fold. We would havemade it on more rides, but after every ride we decided tohead back to our picnic area for a beer break(Mojito beers are quite refreshing on a hot day).

Side note about Catholic Day. Okay, there were a few familieswandering the park with these handmade pro-choiceshirts on. These shirts had pictures of fetuses on them.This didn't bother me so much, but they had all of theirsmall children wearing these same shirts.I even saw a baby with a onesie (sp?) This is just a smallrant on religion, please take no offense. Iunderstand these are individuals and I do not blame the whole religion.But these children have absolutely no idea what these shirtsmean. The parents are using their child for some propagandathat they couldn't even begin to understand. Okay...I am going to stop there, I almost went into someterritory where I might offend or hurt some friends.If you guys want my opinion you can ask, I will move on.

I will add, I also saw this shirt-

I could not stop laughing. Again, apologies if I'moffending anyone, but really?Really you decided to spread the message of jesusand catholicism with a cheesy shirt at Lagoon?Do people think that if jesus reallyexisted, he would approve of such things?

I'm done apologizing.

So we went on the Whore Ride (named because Brandon keptcalling the Terror Ride - the Horror Ride, and it soundedlike the Whore Ride to me. I know, it's juvenile).This ride gave me recurring nightmares as a child.I always thought they were going to shut the ride downwith me in it, and then shut the whole park down.The lady on the front opening and closing the shutterssent shivers down my spine.

I completely forgot about the extremely creepy muralpainted on the front. I had a conversation with Monica,because it seemed that the purpose was to have a collageof a bunch of scary things. There's a creepy ape, a dragon,some skeletons. But, I see this orangutan tucked in the back.His arms look like they used to be holding something, but hasnow dissappeared. Brandon told me he used to be holding abanjo, but they removed it. Probably due to offendingthe abundant amounts of white trash wandering the park.But the park wasn't as concerned about the voodoo lookingAfrican guy. I guess the guy who painted this muralalso decided that a black guy joined the ranks ofspooky things.

Click on the picture to get a larger view.

This post is a lot longer than I had expected.Anyway, things I have learned from my Lagoontrip. Candy cigarettes look more like joints now,some catholics are retarded, homeless guysare hilarious, and to the guy who painted thatmural - You're doing it wrong.

Geez, I feel like I missed out going to Lagoon on just any ole day. It seems you had a good time, and as always as a religious person I am glad that humor was had on our behalf. I say if you can't laugh at yourself, why laugh at all?